Support for shirt-neckbands



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SUPPORT FOR SHIRT NECK BAND.

Patented Jime 24; 1884.

Witnessesfl Inventor:

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PATENT GEORGE \V. PINE, O F TROY, NEXV YORK.

SUPPORT FOR SHIRT-NECKBANDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,002, dated June 24, 1884-.

Application filed November 23, 1883. (NoniodeL) at right angles to the bosoms, and the shirts are superimposed and packed in boxes. As thus packaged, unless some such support is used, the neckbands become flattened by pressure, and when the boxes containing them are opened the shirts have a soiled appearance, which affects their sale. To avoid these contingencies is the object of my invention.

My invention consists, as will be described hereinafter, in the combination, with a strip of card-board or pasteboard of about the same width as the ncckband, and made long enough to be placed inside of the latter -iif contact with it, and so that the ends of the strip will lap past one another, of a button-hole made coincidently through both of the lapping ends of the strip, and opposite the button-holes in the shirt-back opening when the latter are brought together, and a button-hole made in the strip at the front where opposite the button-hole in the neekband, and said openings or button-holes adapted to receive a collar stud-button, to connect the strip to the neckband at the front and back of the latter.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings,

forming a part of this specification, there are shown three figures illustrating my invention, with the same designation of parts by letterreference used in all of them, and of which Figure 1 shows the strip and the holesmade therein for button-studs, to secure it within the neckband-opening and to the neckband. Fig. 2 illustrates the strip with the stud-but tons inserted in it, and Fig. 3 shows the strip as placed within the neck-opening and secured to the neckband by the attaching stud-buttons.

The seve ral parts of the combined support, and those of the shirt with which the former connects, are designated by letter-reference, as follows:

The letter A indicates the shirt, and N its neckband, made with the usual overlap and underlap button-holes in the back opening, and the usual collar-button hole at the front.

The letter S designates a stripof card-board or bonnet-board that is cut to have about the same width as the neckband, and made long enough to have the lapping ends Z Z subtend each other when the strip is inserted within the neck-opening.

The letters O 0 indicate openings made in the lapping ends of the strip, adapted to receive a button-stud, B, to connect them and the lapping ends of the neckband at the back opening thereof with the strip; and B designates a button-stud adapted to connect said strip by means of the opening 0, madetherein, with the collar-button hole A at the front of the neckband. As thus attached, the strip is firmly held in place, all the useful functions of a support are had by its application, and when the shirt is removed from the package and the strip taken out the collar-studs form a useful attachment to the shirt.

I am well aware that a strip of card or bonnetboard made with a notched flange on its lower edge, a transverse slot at one end, and the opposite end made with a tongue adapted to enter said slot to secure said ends, has been patented.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by'Letters Pat cut, is

The combination of the supporting-strip S,

made of card-board or bonnet-board, and bent to have the lapping ends ll, when inserted within the neck-opening ofthe shirt, the open ings O 0", made through said lapping ends, the opening 0, made in the front of the bent strip, and the stud-buttons B and 13*, adapted to connect said strip with the neckband at the front and back, in the manner and for the purposes herein set forth.

Signed at Troy, New York, this 20th day of November, 1883.

' GEORGE W. PINE. Witnesses:

GEO. M. PAYFER, E. I. LAWTON. 

